We have
officially received the green light to move forward with offering TWO
Haudenosaunee Language courses at UB in the Spring 2019 semester! Please make
note of the following preliminary information:

Please
note: You do NOT need any prior knowledge of Seneca or Mohawk language to take
either of these courses. Beginners are welcome!!!

Spring
Semester 2019 runs from Jan 28 – May 10.

If you
are a UB student who is interested in enrolling in these courses, please do so
ASAP. We need to build enrolment as quickly as possible.

These
courses are also open to non-matriculating students. Non-degree seeking
students (which includes High school students and community members) who
want to enroll in one of these courses should follow the process set out
here: https://registrar.buffalo.edu/nondegree/index.php

As a UB Honors College alumnus, I wanted to share an event
series that the International Institute of Buffalo is hosting that I think
Honors College Students might be interested in. We are hosting Great Decisions, a nine-week
community discussion series held in collaboration with the Foreign Policy
Association (FPA).

The International Institute recruits local experts from universities and
organizations to speak about critical foreign policy topics and to facilitate
discussion among program participants. It’s an event that encourages community
members to think like foreign policy makers on a broad range of topics.

All participants have the opportunity to complete national opinion ballots for
each session, which the FPA puts in a report to the White House, the
Departments of State and Defense, members of Congress, the media, policy
researchers and concerned citizens. We encourage participants to discuss how
national policies are impacting the local Buffalo community. The fee is $7 for
walk-ins and $5 for educators & students.

I’ve attached the GD schedule with the list of topics and
speakers. The Facebook events can be found here.

If you could pass this along to interested students, we
would appreciate it!

Be a leader in a vibrant
community of talented and enthusiastic high-school students and energetic
faculty.

Teach and learn what most
interests you, in an atmosphere of freedom and excitement.

Be a friend and mentor to 120
marvelous kids.

Be an architect of an
experience that those 120 kids will cherish for years.

Canada/USA Mathcamp (www.mathcamp.org) is a
summer program for talented high school students from all over the United
States, Canada, and the rest of the world. At Mathcamp, students interact with
world-class mathematicians, explore advanced topics in mathematics, and find a
true intellectual peer group.

The mentor job is a hybrid between
a teaching position and a camp counselor role. Your primary responsibility is
to teach great classes, and you’ll be doing this in the context of a
residential summer program: you live, eat, and play with the campers. It’s a
lot of work and a lot of fun.

As a mentor at Mathcamp, you get
an amazing teaching experience: there is no set curriculum, so you create your
own classes and teach the math you’re interested in. From group theory to
projective geometry, from complex analysis to cryptography, from fractals to
voting theory – there is an abundance of mathematics that can be taught (with a
little imagination) at camp level. You’ll have support (in both curriculum
design and pedagogy) from master teachers, and you’ll work with students who
are exceptionally smart and engaged.

Mentors are also the camp’s
primary leaders and organizers, and cultivate the rich life of the camp by
planning activities, setting camp policy, and serving as residential
counselors—essentially, running the camp, and bringing it to life with creative
ideas, inside and outside the classroom. Initiative, flexibility, and tolerance
for a certain degree of chaos are a must—that is part of what makes Mathcamp an
exciting place to work!

Since women and minority students
often face a shortage of role models in mathematics, we are especially eager to
recruit mentors from these groups.

The ten-week REU in Polymers will be held May 29th – August 2nd, 2019.
Approximately 12 research opportunities will be available for the Summer of
2018. In addition to cutting-edge research, REU participants will
participate in weekly sessions emphasizing the fundamentals of polymer science
and engineering, ethics, communication skills, and graduate school
preparation. Local industry tours and social activities are also planned.
REU students are required to present a poster and submit a final report at the
end of the summer. Each REU participant will receive a $4500 stipend payable in
two installments. Housing, meal allowance, and travel costs are also provided.

Students (non-CWRU) majoring in polymer science and engineering, chemical
engineering, chemistry, materials science and engineering or a related field
are encouraged to apply. Women, underrepresented minorities, and students
from primarily undergraduate institutions are especially encouraged to apply.
Participants must be citizens or permanent residents of the U.S.

Loyal
Blue Day
is a celebration of UB alumni and friends that make gifts to support students.
The goal is to thank donors and teach students about the ways philanthropy enriches
their education through scholarships, experiential learning, technology,
facility upgrades, etc. Student volunteers are needed for the Loyal Blue Day
stations at the Student Union on North Campus and Harriman Hall on South Campus
from 10 a.m. – 2 p.m.

All
volunteers will receive a free t-shirt for their 2-hour shift. Volunteers will
simply be asked to recruit students to the Loyal Blue Day table to write thank
you notes to donors. It’s very simple, and it will be a fun atmosphere with
games, prizes and food.

The photographic image has undoubtedly been a
decisive artifact in the construction of modern life. Today, we take more
pictures and see the results faster than ever, given the technology that most
people with a cellphone have access to. But why do we love taking pictures? Why
is the “selfie” so ubiquitous? What are we after? Has that changed since
photography’s beginning, not so long ago, in the mid-19th century?

The word “photography” was invented by resorting to Greek, linking light, “photos,” and writing, “graphein,” suggesting that this practice of recording images on a surface is a way of writing with light. This form of writing has developed a productive dialogue with literature, as a longstanding creative practice of writing that draws on reality and language… and their uncanny underside. Feeding on literature’s special potential to express unacknowledged dreams, psychoanalysis has provided a vocabulary to consider that enigmatic underside, where words and images exceed conscious will and established discourses. This course considers the relations photography maintains with perception, signification, time, history, pleasure, desire, sexuality, and political agency, among other factors. Such an investigation will take us forward: to interrogate the sense and effects of current and future photographic practices, from everyday Instagram smartphone shots to photojournalism, to photography in contemporary art galleries. And it also takes us back: to 19th-century Paris as a starting point, where photography finds important roots with inventors Daguerre and Niépce, and where a certain medical practice that involved photography, namely, Dr. Charcot’s experiments and theories of hysteria, led to the invention of psychoanalysis, a field that gave rise to the concept of the unconscious in ways highly relevant, in turn, to experimental photography and literature. And further back… to fairy tales Charles Perrault introduced to the literary cannon at the end of the 17th century, which still intrigue us today (Blanche Neige/Snow White, for instance). The trajectories of photography, psychoanalysis, and literature are therefore intertwined in rich ways that we explore in this course. How, for instance, does photography transform literary works? And what do literature and psychoanalysis reveal to users of photographic images about themselves, or about the bodies and world they see through photography? Can photographs make visible what remains unacknowledged, unthought, yet shaping our reality? These are questions that certain photographers and writers actively explored, drawing on plastic experiments, psychoanalytic theory, and on the unique knowledge that literary works can give access to. The discussion remains open for you (and your camera) to join. *French majors and minors (or readers of French) are strongly encouraged to read in French whenever possible.

The program meets over the course of eight weeks for lunch or dinner; it
introduces students to opportunities at the undergraduate and graduate levels.
Throughout the program, participants meet students who have previously applied
for and won prestigious awards. It is designed to give students the opportunity
to assess their strengths, envision their futures and create plans to become
competitive for major fellowships and scholarships. Students will complete
Clifton StrengthsFinder and begin to write a personal statement.

Callfor Applications

We invite undergraduates to apply to the
Proactive Health Informatics Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) site
for Summer 2019 (application: http://bit.ly/ProHealthREU2019​).

What is the Proactive Health Informatics REU
Site?

The Proactive Health Informatics REU aims to
build usable and intelligent pervasive systems that empower people to manage
their health and see how their everyday decisions impact their progress to
achieve future health goals. Our REU site will provide students with a
unique opportunity to learn techniques in the areas of human computer
interaction, pervasive computing (mobile or wearable), environmental sensing
(ambient and on-body), machine learning (vision recognition and signal
processing), and the implications of technologies on society. Students will
learn appropriate methods, software tools, and analysis techniques related to
their project, thus experience in these areas is not necessarily required. In
addition, all students will learn scholarly professional development skills,
such as synthesizing related work, identifying research aims, designing ethical
studies, collecting data, analyzing results, and presenting results in papers
and presentations.

career
opportunities through preparatory workshops and one-on-one mentoring;

engage
in an interactive mentoring relationship

with
a faculty member and graduate student;

work
with mentors to disseminate research;

and

inspire
lifelong learners to consider computing

through
interactive experiences.

Logistics

Our 2019 REU dates are Sunday, May 19 through
Friday, July 12, 2019.

For the 8-weeks of participation, each student will receive travel to and from
Bloomington, a $4000 stipend, free room and board, and GRE preparation (if
wanted).

How to Apply?

We encourage undergraduate students interested
in computing/informatics oriented areas – independent of experience or years in
their respective programs – to apply to our REU program.

One of the goals of the REU program is to
broaden participation of students from traditionally underrepresented groups in
computing and/or who do not have access to research facilities at their home
institution. We strongly invite applications from women, students of color,
first-generation college students, gender and sexual minorities, veterans, and
students with disabilities. Previous research experience is not a requirement.

Please complete an application as soon as
possible (we will review, interview, and select participants on a rolling basis
starting immediately). We typically have our REUs selected by early March, so
the sooner one applies, the better their changes of consideration.

unofficial transcript in a web
repository, such as Google Drive or Dropbox (Dropbox Directions: https://www.dropbox.com/help/167)),
and share it only with a person who has a link

A personal statement that discusses your research

interests and motivation for
being part of ProHealth’s inclusive, collaborative research experience

(Optional) A link to your to a website that

shows examples of your project
work

In addition to the requirements above, the

application will collect:

demographic information,

Interests,

information about prior experiences.

This program is funded in part by the National
Science Foundation (NSF). Stipends from NSF funds are restricted to U.S.
citizens or permanent residents. International applicants with a stipend
through their home institution are welcome to apply. If international
applications are selected, we will provide research housing. Other
NSF-supported REU programs may be found at the NSF https://www.nsf.gov/crssprgm/reu/list_result.jsp?unitid=5049.

ProHealth reserves the right to review,
interview, and select participants on a rolling basis, thus people who apply
sooner have a better opportunity for a position within the ProHealth Research
community.

Indiana University values diversity and invites
applicants from underrepresented groups who will enrich the research, teaching,
and service missions of the university. We are an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative
Action employer, and we encourage applications from women, minorities,
protected veterans, and individuals with disabilities.